Course Delivery

Assessment

Assessment Type

Assessment length / details

Proportion

Semester Exam

2 Hours
(written examination)

100%

Supplementary Assessment

2 Hours
(written examination)

100%

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the module, a student should be able to:
1. determine the stream function for the flow of an inviscid fluid past body;
2. determine the velocity potential for an irrrotational flow;
3. establish Blasius's equation and apply it to the flow past various shapes, including aerofoils;
4. calculate image systems and apply them to the determination of flow past bodies;
5. determine complex potential functions of incompressible irrotational fluid flows.

Brief description

This module continues the development of fluid mechanics, begun in MA25610, and deals in particular with the theory of two-dimensional motion and aerofoil theory.

Aims

To continue with the development of fluid mechanics, in particular the theory of two-dimensional motion and aerofoil theory, and to relate it to many natural and everyday events: why an aeroplane in flight is able to defy gravity, why the shower curtain always seems to envelope us like a triffid, why we need to keep windows open in the typhoon season.